I study how social movements evolve, and particularly what happens after they win. Using computational methods and and text analysis, I try to understand the cultural dynamics of collective action: what holds movements together, how they change, and what happens to them once they get what they want. My work combines social movement theory, cultural sociology, and computational social science methods.

My dissertation follows the post-victory trajectory of the American LGBTQ movement after marriage equality, drawing on an original dataset of social media data and a series of interviews with LGBTQ activists across the country. Using computational text analysis. I examine how victory unsettles the cultural fabric of a movement and how it is remade through contestation and negotiation in the aftermath.

Beyond the dissertation, I am involved in several projects applying computational social science approaches to political and comparative-historical sociology. These include using natural language inference to trace historical patterns in legal texts and legislation, as well as investigating what large language models capture about historical content and whether LLMs can serve as tools for representing the past. Methodologically, I am drawn to adapting novel computational tools for questions in social movement studies, political sociology, and comparative-historical analysis.

Journal Articles

Huyser, K. R., Collins, K. A., Jessome, Mary G., Einhorn, T., Chavez, T., Wilkes, K., and Johnson-Jennings, M. 2025. “The Influence of Trust on Indigenous Peoples’ Attitudes Toward and Adherence to Health Measures During SARS-CoV2 in Canada and the United States.” Canadian Journal of Public Health. [Forthcoming]

Book Chapters

Einhorn, Tom. [In progress]. LGBTQ Politics in Israel.

Einhorn, Tom and Catherine Corrigall-Brown. 2023. “Political Organizations.” In Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, edited by M. Grasso and M. Giugni. Elgar.

Van Kauffman, Rachel, Tom Einhorn, & Gad Yair. 2017. “Answering the Need for Identity: ‘Massa’ and Israeli identity Building.” In Yair, G. (ed.), Massa Israeli, pp. 71-104. Tel Aviv: Yediot Sefarim. [Hebrew]

Yair, Gad., Tom Einhorn, & Rachel Van Kauffman. 2017. “A School for Teachers: The Adaptation of ‘Massa’ Pedagogy.” In Yair, G. (ed.), Massa Israeli, pp. 193-202. Tel Aviv: Yediot Sefarim. [Hebrew]

Reports and Policy Papers

Yabo, Mariela & Tom Einhorn. 2019. The Provision of Assistive Devices in Selected Countries. RR-816-19. The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute.

Haran, Dafna, Tom Einhorn, Nurit Guedj, & Lital Barlev. 2019. Participation in Society of Persons with Disabilities: An International Review of Measurement Tools to Identify Persons with Disabilities. RR-813-19. The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute.

Eyal, Yonatan, Tom Einhorn, & Dafna Haran. 2019. Practical Aspects of Personal-Budget Service for People with Disabilities: Review of the Literature. RR-800-19. The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute.

Barlev, Lital, Tom Einhorn, & Gabbi Admon-Rick. 2019. People with Disability in Israel: Selected Statistical Data for the 2018 Calendar Year. The Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute.

Works in Progress

Einhorn, Tom. “Residential Segregation and Protest: The Case of the 2020 BLM protest Wave”

Einhorn, Tom. “Gendered Pathways into LGBTQ Activism in Israel”

Einhorn, Tom. “Homonationalist opportunities: The Rise of Contemporary LGBTQ Activism in Israel.”

Conference Presentations

Einhorn, Tom. 2022. “The Impact of Residential Segregation on BLM Protest.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. August 7, Los Angeles, California.

Einhorn, Tom. 2022. “Residential Segregation and the 2020 BLM Protest Wave.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association. May 19, Zoom.

Einhron, Tom. 2020. “Gendered Pathways to LGBTQ Activism in Israel.” Paper scheduled to be given annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, California. Conference Canceled due to Covid-19.

Einhron, Tom. 2020. “Gendered Pathways to LGBTQ Activism in Israel.” Paper scheduled to be given annual meeting of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. London, Ontario. Conference Canceled due to Covid-19.

Einhron, Tom. 2020. “Gendered Pathways to LGBTQ Activism in Israel.” Paper given at the annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association. February 25, Bar Ilan, Israel.

Einhorn, Tom. 2018. “Homonationalism and LGBTQ Activism in Israel.” Paper given at the annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association. January 30, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

Public Sociology

Articles and Op-eds

Einhorn, Tom. 2023. “Anti-government protesters are reclaiming the Israeli flag from the far-right.” The Conversation, May 25.

Einhorn, Tom & Catherine Corrigall-Brown. 2023. “Art Attack: Protest Takes Aim at the Climate Crisis”. Contexts 22(2):60-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/15365042231172471

Interviews

Dempster, Michael. 2020, September 1. “For Right-wing LGBT Israelis, There Are Two Closets to Come Out Of.” Haaretz.

2024            Patricia Marchak International Research Scholarship in Sociology

2023            Kurt and Ann Paulus Memorial Scholarship

2019-2023  UBC Four Year Fellowship

2019-2023  UBC International Tuition Award

2019-2023  UBC President’s Excellence Award

2022            Kurt and Ann Paulus Memorial Scholarship

2019             Kurt and Ann Paulus Memorial Scholarship

2018-2019  Luxembourg Scholarship for Student Research

2017-2019   Shaine Center for Research in the Social Sciences Scholarship

Undergraduate Courses

SOCI 101 Social Interaction and Culture

SOCI 102 Inequality and Social Change

SOCI 200 Sociology of the Family

SOCI 224 Sociology of Personal Life

SOCI 310 Canadian Society

SOCI 312 Gender Relations

SOCI 320 Diversity in Family Forms

SOCI 328 Social Statistics I

SOCI 380 Sociological Methods: Survey Research

SOCI 382 Sociological Methods: Qualitative Research

FMST 314 Relationship Development

FMST 316 Human Sexuality